Thursday, May 17, 2012

Windows 8 will tell parents what their children do on the PC

Over the years Microsoft has been making Windows more secure and this is well demonstrated in Windows 8. This version extends the adoption of ASLR and Windows Defender is already built, as well as the SmartScreen Filter in Internet Explorer. Now a new security feature was shown on the official blog of creating Windows 8 and it should not please the young children who have computers with the system.


This is the Family Safety. It is an option that turns weekly reports for a particular account in Windows 8, if it is marked as an account that is used by a child. When connected, this feature automatically generates weekly reports containing more sites that were accessed, programs that were more open and even searches conducted, and sends them to the email administrator's computer.

Also there is the option to limit the amount of hours that account can be online, besides having a tool filters adult websites. The Windows 8 Preview Release, scheduled to be released in the first week of June, will come with this tool installed but the demo video below should give an idea of how it should work.

Personally, I think a very good idea of ​​Microsoft to help parents by offering this option built into the monitoring system. Although we also find that there is a role of the operating system to do that kind of control but their own parents or guardians, regardless of the computer.

But I can only remember a similar situation in the past, when the antivirus vendors were not too happy with the creation of the Microsoft Security Essentials. Now I imagine that companies that create filter monitoring for children should also join the group of malcontents.